Project Encore: Choral Works Awaiting Second Performances
Posted on Mar 16, 2010
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Filed under: Choral, Cycle of Friends
Last year the New York chorus Schola Cantorum on Hudson initiated their Project Encore™ initiative, an effort to promote second performances of choral works that have received premiere performances and nothing since. It is a great and much needed idea: a juried central repository complete with instrumentation, text, program notes and even audio excerpts...
Read MoreJoseph Castaldo’s “Ancient Liturgy” Revisited in Philadelphia
Posted on Mar 5, 2010
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Filed under: Choral, Joseph Castaldo, Other People\'s Music, Philadelphia, Seán Deibler, Teachers, Video
This month the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, my choral alma mater, will present a concert that epitomizes the kind of music making that went on in Philadelphia when I was a student there in the 1980′s. The occasion is the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Joseph Castaldo’s extraordinary work for narrator, chorus and orchestra Ancient...
Read MoreJudging Student Composers
Posted on May 11, 2008
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Filed under: Choral, competition, judging, San Francisco Conservatory
This evening I had the thoroughly enjoyable experience of sitting on a panel of judges for a competition at the San Francisco Conservatory. These opportunities to judge come up from time to time, and I’m always glad to do it, not just to help the parties involved, but because it forces me to really listen and to think critically, knowing there’s a...
Read MoreChoral Music for Bedtime
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
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Filed under: Bartók, Choral, Hindemith, Kodály, Other People\'s Music, Philo, Ravel
About a year and a half ago, I posted a little something about my son’s taste in orchestral music. He was about to turn three then, and now he’s four and a half. Since that time, my ability to play music for him has been limited for various boring technical and life reasons. A few weeks ago, I got a new mobile phone that functions as a music...
Read MoreAn Old Favorite: Cycle of Friends Turns 10
Posted on May 3, 2006
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Filed under: Chinese, Choral, Commission, Cycle of Friends, Emily Dickinson, Past Work, Poetry, Sappho
Today was the 10th anniversary of the premiere of my first commissioned work. Cycle of Friends, for soprano, chorus and chamber orchestra, was premiered on May 3rd, 1996 by the Music Group of Philadelphia. Artistic Director Sean Deibler had been one of my undergraduate teachers, and has been a mentor and all-around guru ever since. I was very lucky to be one...
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